Little different format for the recap tonight.
First, the good. A lot of good happened tonight, of course, the Braves won. The biggest “good” has to go to the birthday boy, Chipper. He went 3 for 3 with a walk and a home run. For his career Chipper is batting over .400 on his birthday. Wow. Also good tonight was Acosta. With the injuries to the starting staff, the pen has been called upon to carry more of the load. For that, Bobby seems to have changed the way he uses them a bit. Relievers are being asked to go 2 innings more often, so other relievers can have the night off (or maybe its because Bobby doesn’t trust the pen?). Tonight was Acosta’s night to go two and he got the save. Campy was also called upon to go two, he only allowed one hit. Of course the comedy of the night was provided by McCann, his head first slide into third!
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Posted by lsu31always
Braves Report — published on April 24th, 2008
On Tuesday John Smoltz became the 16th member of the 3,000 K club in baseball history. Here are some Smoltz K facts:
Only Phil Niekro reached it at an older age.
6th fastest to reach it in terms of innings pitched.
Only Bob Gibson and Walter Johnson also recorded all 3,000 K’s with the same team.
David Wright with 19 K’s vs Smoltz leads active players.
Craig Biggio leads all players with 26 K’s vs Smoltzie
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I like this song, I’m just saying that there weren’t a whole lot of options here.
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Posted by D'Andre Williams
Tomahawk Talk — published on April 24th, 2008
Mike Gonzalez: Gonzalez was originally supposed to come off the DL around the all-star break. Thankfully he has been work extremely hard and is now expected to be ready by mid May. We can only hope that he will not have any major set backs that will keep him out longer.
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What’s worse about this loss is that we managed to leave more men on base than the last few games (13). Over the course of the last three games we’ve left a total of 31 men on base. That really needs to stop and our hitting needs to be more timely in key situations, especially since our bullpen can’t really hold a lead or close game right now. We really need to get better in clutch hitting. Also, it doesn’t help when we send the same guys out there that keep blowing games out of reach to hold a game. Buddy Carlyle and Chris Resop should not be brought in to shut down games at all. Obviously, it hasn’t worked yet for them and it probably won’t but every once in a blue moon. But Bobby keeps sending them out there nonetheless like he forgets what they have (or haven’t rather) done during games lately.
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